America’s educational system used to cover the “three Rs” — reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic – but that has long been abandoned from elementary school through college and even medical school and replaced with ideological indoctrination. Now the University of California, San Diego is requiring students to take a class in “climate change” to earn a degree. Classes such as “The Astronomy of Climate Change”, “Gender and Climate Justice”, “Indigenous Approaches to Climate Change,” and “Environmentalism in Arts and Media” are on offer. What is driving the push for shoving climate alarmism into every academic subject under the sun?
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I try to watch and I get “login to youtube to confirm you’re not a bot”. Im not a bot but I NEVER login. Why do I need to be tracked? Not happening! Could this be posted elsewhere?
I’ve been getting the same message for a month or more on my PC.
The YouTube app on my TVs? No problem.
(Though I’ve never tried to get to YouTube via the TVs’ “web browser”.)
They SHOULD be requiring a course on CRITICAL THINKING, LOGIC AND REASONING.
Badly needed in today’s “propaganda machine bombardment” atmosphere.
“They SHOULD be requiring a course on” nothing.
If I’m paying, let me pick the courses. How about:
“They SHOULD be …” recommending ” … a course on” whatever.
Universities, of course. Public K-12 schools, one rarely gets to pick anymore. A few electives, such as band and art and chorus, but not many. Some IT and media also. But core courses? Nyet!
What do you know?How do you feel?
Like a rolling stone,
A complete unknown . . .
And people are calling the slow takeover of our society by the Marxist a conspiracy theory.
“America’s educational system used to cover the “three Rs” — reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic”
When?
When I was in school, late 50s, 60s, and 70s.
1950-1970. The good old days.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.“
STORY TIP
The irony of this story totally makes my Friday. According to this YouTube video, fire stations in Australia and Germany caught fire themselves because of …..drumroll please…lithium-ion batteries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YkfWyj2TiA
The fire station in Hesse state, Germany was reportedly brand new. Neither station had fire alarms to warn the firefighters. This could not be scripted any better for a movie.
Let’s stop pretending this has anything to do with the climate. Or science. Just read the course names.
Now, the Astronomy of Climate Change sounds like science, doesn’t it? I spent a few minutes on the UCSD website looking for a syllabus, or even a description but came up empty. I remain skeptical that this course will cover astronomical influences on the climate.
America’s educational system used to cover the “three Rs” — reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic – but that has long been abandoned from elementary school
ah yes the good old days when we all used to walk to school 5 miles through 10 feet of snow
up hill both ways.
University of California, San Diego Now the University of California, San Diego is requiring students to take a class in “climate change” to earn a degree.
fact check. does this mean all degrees all students.
lets check a few.
https://ucsd.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees.html
Ill check my majors.
Linguistics
https://linguistics.ucsd.edu/undergrad/courses/all_courses.html
Literature
here are four majors within the Department of Literature, and requirements vary from major to major. Below you will find the major checklists, faculty advisors, and additional resources and opportunities for students to explore. Your faculty advisor will be available to assist you with such issues as academic progress, research opportunities and career paths within your field.
All our majors require:
Philosophy
https://philosophy.ucsd.edu/undergraduate/philosophy-major.html
now, im strugglin to find any requirement for climate studies.
Understand this. attendance at a UC system school is totally voluntary.
dont like a liberal education where you ar forced to read stuff you disagre with?
and foce to cite your sources, and support your claims?
well then I suggest this
https://missouriweldinginstitute.com/
Not challenging your research.
There is always the possibility that these requirements come into play next academic calendar, which means they would not yet be listed.
Analysis of alternatives.
Your point about listing sources is valid.
Try this link.
https://undergrad.ucsd.edu/programs/jtccer.html
Also this link:
https://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/Notices/2023/2023-11-16-3.html
Well, from the second link:
We are thrilled to announce that the Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement (JTCCER) was approved at the Academic Senate’s Oct. 10, 2023 Representative Assembly meeting. The establishment of this new graduation requirement for incoming first-year students, beginning fall 2024, is designed to empower our students with the knowledge and skills needed to confront the urgent global challenge of climate change. UC San Diego has long been a leader in climate change research.
Seems pretty clear. I imagine the result will be a lot of kids using AI to help them write alarmed essays about the climate crisis. The usual result of such efforts at indoctrination is either ridicule or internal exile.
The British Labour Party seems like its going down this same path, like the Guardian with its famous Clark County letter writing campaign. The Labour Party, now in government, is sending a thousand or so activists to try and persuade Americans to elect Harris rather than Trump.
One imagines being told by a Brit how to vote will lead to a strong reaction, find out how they are asking me to vote, then do the opposite. Just as it did in Clark County, and probably swung it for Bush. They never learn. The Soviet Union never learned.
UCSD won’t learn either.
If AI writes all the essays, and uses online essays to learn, it will disappear up its own orifice. I heard recently that they did that very test on AI and it did. Might have been written by AI though.
This is a certified non-AI comment.
Doesn’t this count as foreign interference in our elections?
Were punctuation, spelling and grammar merely non-essential, elective elements of your “majors”?
“Understand this. attendance at a UC system school is totally voluntary.”
That could be read a number of ways in addition to the obvious one.
First pass I thought you meant students could either show up to classes or not show up to classes- which is always true but probably a poor strategy for success.
“used to cover the “three Rs” — reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic”
Seems you missed out on at least two of those. !!
Should of course read, an indoctrination in climate propaganda is required….etc….
Of course (npi), it may be an unwritten rule – if climate change isn’t in the extras your academic progress is over.
It didn’t take much effort to find this:
https://undergrad.ucsd.edu/programs/jtccer.html
Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement (JTCCER)
“She thought all education should be climate change education,” Holway said.
Jane Teranes: 1969-2022 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography (ucsd.edu)
As my pappy used to say ‘Beware of overboarders son’ which pretty much sums up an awful lot of lefties and how a sharp operator can turn them into useful idiots.
Mosh missed that it’s a “Climate Change” change for new students to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree.
Old students get a pass.
Wow, a C-. Explains a lot. And see the comment from michel at 1:46. Sure sounds like a graduation requirement.
As I said above,
“Mosh missed that it’s a “Climate Change” change for new students to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree.
Old students get a pass.”
Sparta and It Doesn’t Add Up supplied the same link I found.
https://undergrad.ucsd.edu/programs/jtccer.html
Mosh just didn’t look deep enough.
The three Rs? I have long argued that basic education is four Rs: Reading, Riting, Rithmetic and Reasoning. Like the ring in Lord of the Rings that bound them all, the fourth R binds the Rs.
Back in the days of the one room school house, reasoning was not required, it was already present.
https://youtu.be/FlE47GckHRA?si=dz1Vxe-3Q0twstMF